Any early sprite art you're particularly fond of?

I think Iain McCaig did the best pixel art you could get in 1990. It's even better with a CRT shader.
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(Second) Favorite Gen, Favorite sprites
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I've always had a soft spot for chibi overworld map sprites, you know, like the ones in Final Fantasy V. Because who wouldn't want their epic hero on a tiny, adorable adventure
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I always like DQ3 style character pixel.

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Oh sorry, I missed the "early" part. In that case, the skier from Slalom is cool (and not just because he's caked up, but that does help)


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Personally a big fan of Pokemon black and white sprite and earthbound sprite
 
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the sonic 3 sprite has always irked and haunted me and whenever i look at him i cant tell what to think of him. sometimes i think of him as sonic team leaning too much into americanised sonic because of how rotund he is. at the same time, look how blank his expression is now that hes drawn in more detail with a mouth and all that; and also whats up with that weird shadow on his pupils??? but when i look at him from farther away the colours on his sprite blend together and he looks really well drawn and kind of cute. i really want to read some kind of pixel art analysis on his sprite set because of just how weird he looks. maybe sonic team never planned on kids looking centimetres away from the television back in 1994, and now that we have lcd screens a lot of stuff they didnt intend to be seen are now in full display. i have to say the big hands are adorable though.
 
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Arc the Lad trilogy, it has sooo many little animations for npcs, enemies being defeated, special vista backgrounds… it’s too much!!

Final Fantasy VI is crazy amazing too, that’s still my favourite snes pixel art, especially the machine backgrounds like the magitek facility and Kefka’s tower ☺️

Edit: oh I forgot too I really love Spectral Force and Generation of Chaos’ Sprites!
 
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Tales of World Narikiri Dungeon 2 & 3 sprites (which is basically Tales of Eternia's artstyle and reuses a lot of enemy sprites)

- Teenage Years
- The Period Tales of Series was my HYPERFIXATION with Symphonia and Abyss
- The FIRST GBA game I ever Emulated was Narikiri Dungeon (and technically the first Romhack too with combat only translation)
- I ALMOST became a Pixel Artists trying to use this 2D artstyle for my OCs

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Tales of Phantasia: Narikiri Dungeon X would refine the artstyle
 
I tend to not like much pre-16 bit sprite art, but I always really dug the neutral zone from Yar's Revenge. Such a cool effect.
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Also, Mr. Gimmick rules.
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Im just a sucker for these kinds of games, all Megami Tensei (Except Majin Tensei 1, that one busted my balls waiting for the enemy to get up their asses and move) and the Wizardry trilogy on GBC
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